The National Development Bank (BNDES) offers downloadable text for discussion 132: Investment in refining and petrochemicals - strategic employment of petroleum belonging to the Union in the sharing model, by Martim Francisco de Oliveira e Silva, André Camargo Cruz and Paulo Dias Mesquita .

The text updates the analysis of the sale of the portion of the Union oil in long-term supply auctions for refining and petrochemicals carried out during the study Potential diversification of the Brazilian chemical industry, financed by BNDES and carried out by Bain & Company and Gas Energy, between 2013 and 2014.

He also discusses the mechanisms that can be used to attract investments that allow the local aggregation of value to a finite mineral resource, improvements in the trade balance, greater energy independence, higher tax revenues and, of course, greater economic and social development, which is in accordance with the lawsuits of the study. Another future is possible, that proposes to use the oil and gas of the Union as raw material and energy input to foment the industrial chain by means of structural auctions. According to the director of Economy and Statistics, Fátima Giovanna Coviello Ferreira:"when the exploration of the Pre-Salt is discussed as an instrument for the necessary energy shock that Brazil needs to gain competitiveness, the BNDES study opens space for the discussion of the growth potential of the petrochemical industry in Brazil and of the importance of adding value to natural resources, including as an alternative to use as a fuel, a movement that has already been happening in other countries and with most of the oil companies. " Abiquim is organizing a conversation with the authors of the document to disseminate content and opportunities.

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